Trivia and Quotes

Quotes (11)

Johnny: People say I make strange choices, but they're not strange for me. My sickness is that I'm fascinated by human behavior, by what's underneath the surface, by the worlds inside people.

Johnny: (On "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street") How many chances to you get to make a musical about a serial killer? The minute Tim [Burton] approached me, I was in.

Johnny: If you catch me saying "I am a serious actor", I beg you to slap me.

Johnny: (on his relationship with partner Vanessa Paradis) We basically somehow have a miraculous understanding of one another and we don't ever talk about the business. We don't talk about her work or my work. So our life in that sense is very, very simple. We are great, great friends and we're in love.

Johnny: Me, I'm dishonest, and you can always trust a dishonest man to be dishonest. Honestly, it's the honest ones you have to watch out for...

Johnny: (on his plans to retire at age 50) I feel my sex appeal will last no longer.

Johnny: (on director Tim Burton) He can ask me everything. If he wants me to have sex with an aardvark in one of his next movies, then I will do that.

Johnny: (on Gene Wilder's comment on the remake of "Charlie & the Chocolate Factory") Hearing about that was disappointing, but I can understand where he's coming from, I guess. The one thing I didn't understand was that apparently he was quoted as saying 'Well, they just did this for money.' Well, hey, man, where have you been? When didn't they ever do anything for money? Nobody's ever made a film in the history of cinema where they weren't expecting some return on their dough.

Trivia (42)

Johnny donated $2 million to a children's hospital in London, in return for saving his daughter's life.

Johnny turned to alcohol to cope with his fame in the 1990s. To this day, Johnny highly dislikes the attention and doesn't understand why people are fans of his strange work.

Johnny says his greatest fear is his children becoming actors.

Johnny would love to create his own wine.

In 1994, Johnny was arrested for trashing a New York hotel room. He blamed an armadillo that was, according to him, hiding in a closet before it went crazy, wrecking the hotel room before leaping out the window.